methodism

noun

1. (uncountable, usually)The Methodist Christian movement founded by John Wesley in 18th-century England.

   “Far more Yankees shifted to Methodism, an eighteenth-century splinter from the Anglican Church with an emphasis on effecting social change[.]”

2. (uncountable, usually)Any of several related movements.
3. (uncountable)The practice of adhering (often excessively) to methods.

   “Descartes's methodism with its regulative criterion leads him to explicitly deny that accidentally true belief qualifies as knowledge.”